Salman Rushdie Quotes
One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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My sister lived in England for a while when I was 12, and I came to visit her, and I spent most of the time in her flat reading.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
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People would always say horror movies always thrive during times of war; that's just what people would say. And I don't know if they thrived during World War II or Vietnam, but I thought that's kind of strange, why would that happen. I don't know if people rearrange their priorities; in good times, they freak out and start pointing the fingers at video games and TV, but when horrible things are happening in the world, a horror movie just seems a little ridiculous.
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What's important is to listen before you react.
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Coming out as gay was an easy enough matter for me, since I worked in a profession where being gay had a long history of being accepted.
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The full flower of divine love and our greatest blessings from that love are conditional-predicated upon our obedience to eternal law. I pray that we may qualify for those blessings and rejoice forever.
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I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
